I was in the nether exploring a nether fortress and my last sword broke as I was fighting a wither skeleton and a blaze and a few normal skeletons. That was my first mistake to begin with haha. But anyways when my sword broke I started sprinting down the walkway(it was an exposed bridge) and I was dodging arrows as I ran. Then I saw an edge coming up and knew I had to jump. I ran all the way to the end off it and leaped into a massive ocean of lava.

Did you miss the part where I said I was using Chrome? Chrome most certainly doesn't lower my URLs - it would never work with any pages served by Apache, Glassfish or Tomcat if that was the case (all of which I use daily). Anyway, it's not important.

So I'm wrong about how potentially easy letting users port skins could be.
But the reason we got into the discussion is because it was basically being implied that it's eas enough that it shouldn't be charged for (at least that's how I see it, because it was in response to me saying why there's no scenario in which skins DLC would be free).
So even with how easy it would be to let people port their skins -- in fact, BECAUSE of how easy it apparently is -- 4J is still going to need people to moderate skins to make sure no copyright infringement or obscene skins show up.
So easy to port or not, it would still cost money.

No, they wouldn't. if we are talking about using the minecraft on pc account one, it has already been screened.

you could probably transfer skin files from your PC to the Xbox now, but tell me, how would you then apply them to your minecraft character?
And then you'd have to stay offline or risk getting caught modding by MS and banned from live.
So yeah, they're going to have to set up an infrastructure for it, and it's more complex than just 2 days worth of work.

Because that actually wouldn't work? why don't you understand this?

I'm beginning to think you don't know how basic computer stuff works. How else do you think you download files? They don't magically appear. You specify where it is and it goes and gets it. It's not like pngs don't work on different systems. If I make a image on a mac, will it suddenly not work on windows machines. What about linux?

arguing that someone shouldn't charge $ for something they made is silly. of course dlc skins should cost, you think they should be free? ha!

This has nothing to do with the fact they made it. It's that they are charging you to have a skin, a basic feature of minecraft. What if they made your username steve, and you could only pay to have it be bob, joe, rick, or jeff?